Filling-end holder for weft-replenishing looms.



No. 897,426. PATBNTED SEPT. 1, 1908. M. L. STONE. FILLING END HOLDER FOR WEFT REPLENISHING LooMs.

AYPLIGATION FILED JAN. 22, 1908 Mmwm 1 L holder in a tightly wound mass, and must be dulled.

' at the outer end of the filling-feeder, with a one orm of my inventirm; Fig. 3. is an en- UNITED snares PATENT OFFICE.

MELVIN L. STONE, OF LEWISTON, MAINE, ASSIGNOR 'lO DRAIER COMPANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

FILLING-END HOLDER FOR WEFT-REPLENISHING LOOMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed January 22, 1908. Serial No. 412,147.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known. that 1, MELvrN T1. C'ronE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Lcwiston, county of Androscoggin, State of Maine, have invented an Im ')rovement in Filling-End Holders for VVe-ft-Rcplcnisl'iing liooms of which the following description, in connection with the accmnpanying drawing, is a specification, like letters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates particularly to the filling-feeder or magazine m automatic looms of the Northrop type, wherein the supply of filling-carriers in reserve is contained in a movable feeder or, magazine, from which they are transferred .one by one to the running shuttle. A loom ofthis type is shown in United States Patent No. 529940, granted toJ. ll. Northrop November 27, 1894-.

The typical form of l'illing-feede r has at its outer end abell-like circular plate over which the filling-ends are led and secured at their extremities to a central knobdike end-holder mounted on the feeder.

The waste filling accunnilates on the endremoved from time to time by the weaver. Sometimes the end-holder is removed and the waste removed by main force, and frequently the weaver cuts or hacks olf, the mass of waste with a knife, whether or not the endholder he removed from the filling-feeder. As the end-holder is made of metal the edge of a knifeused as specified is soon turnedor M present invention has for its object the ro'r, notion of an end-holder from which the waste filling can be readily removed without detaching the holder from the feeder, the waste being removed easily and quickly with the aid of a knife and without injury to the latter.

Figure 1 is a vertical diametrieal section through the hub and bell-like circular plate fillin -end holder applied thereto embodying larged outer end. elevation of the end holder; Fig. 3 is a side elevation and partial section of the end holder, to more clearly illustrate the invention.

The bell-like fillin -end supporting plate 1), Fig. 1, having a liub b extended. at its the strip, as at outerend at If and aperture-d to receive the. end of the shank of the end holder, is of well I known construction, said plate in practice being mounted to rotate with the main por tion of the filling-feeder, as is usual in the Northro type of loom.

The filling-end holder comprises a circular enlarged or knob-like head 1, and an elongated and slightly tapered shank 2 usually reduced at 3 to enter the end b of the hub, secured therein in any suitable manner, as by a set-screw 4, Fig. 1, the end holder being made as a casting.

In accordance with my present invention I provide the shank with a longitudinal groove 5, preferably somewhat more than semicircular in cross-section, and 1 slot the head 1 radially at 6, intersecting the groove.

into the groove 1 drive a ieee or strip 7 of non-metallic material, suel as wood, the outer end of the striB being preferably extended through the slot 6, as shownin Fig. 3,'and I prefer to flatten the exposed face of sition without other fastening'means.

Referring to Fig. 1 the ends of'the filling threads are woundaround the shank 2, as atf, and gradually a mass of-waste yarn is formed, which must. be removed. To do this the weaver takes a knife and draws it along the shank 2 lengthwise, the point of the knife drawing along theiface 8 of the strip 7 of wood, and the filling massis uickly and cleanly cut com letely through,

t re stroke of the knife blade )eing continued through the slot 6: This slot also serves to indicate to the weaver the location of the strip of non-metallic material if the filling mass is completely covering the shank ofthe end holder. The arrangement obviates dulling of the knife blade, it insures a cleaner and more. com lete cutting of the waste, and removal of t 1e end-holder to remove the waste by stripping is obviated. l

llavmg fully described my invention, wha 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Lettcrs- Patent is 1. A filling-feeder for fillbig-replenishing looms provided with a hub at its outer end, a filling-end holder having a metallic shank sustained by the hub, and a nonmetallic.

The: shape ofthe groove in cross-se,- t-io11 holds the strip firmly in podial slot intersecting looms, a filling-end holder having an enlarged circular head and a metallic shank sustained at the. outer end of the feeder, the head having a radial slot, and a strip of nonmetallic material inserted in the shank and'extended longitudinally thereof in alinement with the slot in the head, for the ur ose set forth.

3. A rotatable fillin lee er for filling-replenishing looms, a ing-end'holder ,sustained at the. outer end thereof and comprising a longitudinally grooved metallic shank and an enlarged circular head having a rathe groove, and a strip of wood inserted'in the groove and at its outer end projecting-through the slot.

4. A rotatable filling-feeder for filling-replenishing looms, a filling-end holder sustained at the outer end thereof and comprising alongitudinally grooved metallio shank and an enlarged olroular head having'a -radialslot intersecting the groove, and a strip of non-metallic material inserted in the groove and extended the length of the shank, the outer faceof said stri being flattened.

In testimony whereof, i'have signed my name to this specificatiom inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses. 1

MELVIN L. STONE.

Witnesses:

THOMAS J. DnUMMoND, EDWARD F. ALLEN. 

